Exports from the agro and food processing sector in the country have gone up from Rs 2,821 crore in 1991-92 to an estimated Rs 10,770 crore in 2000-01, according to the latest occasional paper brought out by the Export-Import Bank of India (Exim Bank).
The agro and food processing sector in India ranks fifth in terms of its contribution to the GDP and employs around 18 per cent of the country